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491 a The CSM was photographed during pitch-around maneuver prior to docking.
“I didn’t want to leave. Real sad to think of having to leave at that point, knowing you’d never go back.” Edgar Mitchell (Chaikin, Voices, p.113)
491 b “In the blackness of space, the Apollo 14 Command Service Module Kitty Hawk gleams brilliantly as it draws near the camera in the Lunar Module Antares. The single-orbit rendezvous procedure, used for the first time in lunar orbit on this mission, brought the two craft together in two hours” (NASA SP-350, p. 243).
From the mission transcript during docking:
143:32:33 Roosa: Okay, we capture. 143:32:39 Capcom (Mission Control): Beautiful. Normal docking. 143:32:54 Roosa: Okay. And we got hard dock. 143:32:56 Capcom: Beautiful. There’s a big sigh of relief being breathed around here. 143:33:07 Shepard: All over the world, there is. 143:33:08 Roosa: You ought to try it from up here. 143:33:11 Capcom: This world and out of this world, too.
491 c “Because you were running on adrenaline, you didn’t really feel the exhaustion,” remembered Mitchell. “That all came after you got back in the Command Module, took off the suit and relaxed for a minute. And then you realized you were just dead tired. And we hurried. Even Houston hurried us, because they wanted to get us out of orbit on the next pass, because they knew we were all dog tired” (Chaikin, Voices, p. 117).
From the mission transcript after transfer of the crew in the CSM Kitty Hawk (orbit 33): 145:45:16 Edgar Mitchell: And we bid sayonara to Antares.
491 d The photograph was taken with the 80mm lens through the window of the Command Module Kitty Hawk. The LM is in the far distance next to reflections in the spacecraft’s window.
“After crew transfer, Antares was guided to lunar impact at a velocity of approximately 1,600 km/ hour at a point between the Apollo 12 and 14 sites” (NASA SP-350, p. 243).
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